Trump lie (or false statement) about NATO

NATO members don't owe money for failing to meet the NATO guideline of spending 2% of national GDP on defence. That's not how it works. You can argue, if you want, that they've been metaphorically delinquent, but Trump regularly suggests they're in actual debt, which is not true. pic.twitter.com/ucAFSzOOTv

Once again, Trump has this wrong. The 2% spending target is not a current commitment but a goal set for 2024, still six years away. No one is "delinquent" or owes the US any payments. https://t.co/cmWjSPZBKk

Just for context, pls remember that “delinquent for many years in payments” does not apply to any real occurrence in the real world. -NATO does not have “dues” -Its “collective defense” clause has been invoked only once in history: for *other nations* to help the US after 9/11 https://t.co/WmiF59ZMjm

There are no accounts by which the U.S. is "paying for 90% of NATO." In terms of total defence spending by members of the alliance, the U.S. is paying 72%, according to NATO's most recent annual report. And the U.S. pays an agreed-upon, consistent 22% of NATO's actual budget. pic.twitter.com/IXg9yEOUUs

The only way it's "Not fair to the U.S. taxpayer" is if Trump thinks that if European countries spent more on their militaries, we'd spend less on ours. Given that he wants US military spending to be as large as possible, that seems unlikely. https://t.co/efb6Jnhykn